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Melissa Kite: I can no longer find knickers small enough to fit me

As fat women become more powerful as a lobby, slim women who eat sensibly and exercise are treated as neurotic obsessives

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issue 23 November 2013

Barely a week goes by when a female Lib Dem minister doesn’t pledge some new coalition initiative on ‘female body confidence’. The junior equalities minister Jo Swinson was at it again when she congratulated Debenhams for becoming the first high-street retailer to introduce size 16 mannequins. Ms Swinson said: ‘The images we see in the world of fashion are all pretty much the same.

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